Ecotoxicological Risks of Trace Metals in Peri-Urban Food Garden Soils of the Industrial City of Lae, Papua New Guinea

Urban Farm DB summary

An assessment of trace metals in the soils of peri-urban food gardens at Lae, Papua New Guinea's second city and its main industrial centre, and of the ecotoxicological risk they pose. The subject — food growing on the fringe of an industrial city — is barely documented anywhere in the South Pacific. Published online 28 June 2026; the publisher does not make the abstract openly available, so only the study's scope is recorded here.